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> Frontend should never need 5 seconds

I just pulled these numbers off of CNN.com using webpagestest.org, which is showing about a 500ms TTFB and a 5 second time to first contentful paint. I'm a web perf consultant and a 10:1 relationship between frontend and backend time is pretty typical IME.



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